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Chapter 11




               3.2   Bar charts

               Bar charts are another simple way of representing actual data pictorially. A chart is
               drawn where labels for the observations are shown on the horizontal (x) axis and the

               frequencies of each are shown on the vertical (y) axis subject to the following rules:

               Distances against the vertical axis are measurements and represent numerical data.

               Horizontal distances have no meaning. There is no horizontal axis or scale, there are
               only labels.



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               Bar charts are very useful for making comparisons between different data items, data
               sets and so on.





               Go through illustrations 5 and 6

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